Dutch company VDL has presented a full electric DAF CF truck today. DAF and VDL also anounched a partnership for developing and building electrical vehicles. The truck is based on a DAF CF 4×2 tractor unit. The 18 ton truck has 210 kW and is equiped with 170 kWh Li-Ion batterys. The range is 100…… Continue Reading
Kenworth has presented a prototype of the T680 tractor unit with a parallel hybrid electric propulsion system. The truck debuted at the Advanced Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo in 2018. The truck is part of the Hybrid Emission Cargo Transport (HECT) demonstration project, which is partly funded by the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE),…… Continue Reading
Beer brewer Anheuser Busch ordered 40 Tesla trucks. Now the company has ordered a large number of hydrogen trucks at the biggest competitor of Tesla, Nikola. The lawsuit that Nikola filed agianst Tesla, does not impress Anheuser Busch. The giant beer company intends to produce its Budweiser beers with renewable energy by the year 2020.…… Continue Reading
Daimler has introduced the Econic in the USA under the Freightliner brand. The low entry cab of the Econic is the ideal vehicle for the typical American way of collecting garbaged, over the cab. The biggest difference with the European Mercedes-Benz version is the engine. Instead of the OM 936 LA the Freightliner EconicSD has the…… Continue Reading
European legislation is deu to change and that makes it possible to replace mirrors with camera systems. On these photo’s that Truckphoto Helsingborg send us we see a Volvo FH with a special bar on the roof. On the end of this wide roof bar we see a camera system. Probably we are going to…… Continue Reading
These photo’s popped up in our mailbox. An anonymous Iepieleaks friend, or spie if you like found the pictures of this Scania R450 6×2 tractor. The photo’s were shot in Illinois, USA. Now since a failed atempt to enter the USA market in the eighties Scania did not sell trucks in North America. At this…… Continue Reading
Volvo has presented a 100% electric FL distribution truck. The Volvo is capable of max vehicle weights up to 16 ton. The electric engine provides 130 kW of continues power with peaks of 185 kW. The max torque is 425 Nm. There is a two- step gearbox. Lithium-Ion batery’s up to 300 kWh provide the…… Continue Reading
MAN Trucks is working on a next generation and rumours say that involved non EGR engines. There is also a lot of cab news coming our way although the cabs look the same. The front end looks familiar but the highest cab, the XXL lost the high windscreen. Also the complete roof is new and…… Continue Reading
Volkswagen shows a concept pickuptruck on the New York Auto Show. The Atlas Taoak Concept Vehicle is a full size pickup that is meant to get comments from the market. The VW company says there are no production plans for this pickup truck for the near future. VW Chief designer calls the concept ‘the most…… Continue Reading
This time the next generation of the Turkish Ford heavy truck showed up in Hungary. The picture was taken by Mike van Stein who is a former truckdriver. He sent it in to the website of our collegue, Alex Miedema. The cab is big and it seems that Ford wants to do a serious attempt…… Continue Reading
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